LeRoy Percy and family papers, 1894-1930.

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LeRoy Percy and family papers, 1894-1930.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/271013219

Papers reflecting Percy's wide interests and including topics such as administration of large scale cotton farming and factoring; employment of immigrant labor, mainly Italians; railroad and levee policies; state politics; and his world-wide travels. Also covered is Percy's relationship to family, friends, and adversaries. Of special interest is a collection of correspondence on his outspoken stand against the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi.

5,509 items.3 v.

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7236574

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Percy family.

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Percy, LeRoy, 1860-1929

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LeRoy Percy was a lawyer, plantation owner, and U.S. senator (1910-1913) from Greenville, Miss. From the description of LeRoy Percy and family papers, 1894-1930. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 271013219 ...

Ku Klux Klan 1915-....

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The Ku Klux Klan was formally incorporated under the laws of the state of Georgia on Dec. 4, 1915. The incorporated organization is a continuance of the earlier post Civil War Reconstruction Era unincorporated Ku Klux Klan and of the Knights of the White Camellia. Women of the Ku Klux Klan was incorporated at a late date as a separate entity. The stated purpose of the KKK was to promote an all White, Protestant United States, excluding all other races and religions. From the descript...